Gary Gowers is a sports journalist and the editor of Read Everton, where he leads daily coverage of Everton news, transfers and analysis. He also writes about Manchester City for Read Man City and motorsport for Read Motorsport. A former accountant, he became a freelance writer in 2011 and has written for BBC Sport and Metro.
Everton have finalised the financial structure of their move for a Chelsea winger Tyrique George who impressed on loan at Hill Dickinson Stadium last season, with the deal now worth up to £24m. The club passed on their original £25m option to sign the player outright, instead renegotiating a lower guaranteed fee of £18m, with […]
Jordan Pickford’s performance in England’s 3-2 win over Mexico will be remembered for two saves inside the first 45 minutes, but the numbers behind his display tell a fuller story of a goalkeeper who barely put a foot wrong across a chaotic night at the Azteca. The numbers Mexico finished the match with 23 shots […]
England’s reward for surviving the Azteca is a World Cup quarter-final against Norway at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Saturday, kick-off 10pm BST. The tie sets up a heavyweight individual contest with an unmistakable Everton thread running through it. Jordan Pickford, fresh from his match-winning display against Mexico, will face Erling Haaland, the […]
Everton have completed two permanent signings this summer, with two more expected to follow. The gaps that remain say as much about the club’s priorities as the deals already struck. Business done Hayden Hackney arrived from Middlesbrough for an initial £16.5m, rising to around £25m with add-ons, as detailed in Everton’s live summer transfer tracker. […]
Jordan Pickford made a string of crucial saves, blocks and punches as England withstood a Mexican onslaught to win 3-2 at the Estadio Azteca and reach the World Cup quarter-finals. The Everton keeper was forced into repeated action after Jarell Quansah’s 54th-minute red card left England to defend a two-goal lead with 10 men for […]
Your Sunday summary … Everton talking points for the week just gone. 1. The Ndiaye situation is now the biggest story at the club Yakubu’s chat with ToffeeWeb, urging Everton to tie down Iliman Ndiaye and comparing him to Steven Pienaar, would carry less weight if it wasn’t bringing up somnething really key to the […]
Jordan Pickford could equal Peter Shilton’s all-time England appearance record at a World Cup when he starts against Mexico in the last 16, with kick-off at 1am BST on Monday at the Azteca Stadium. It would be Pickford’s 17th World Cup appearance for England, matching Shilton’s mark. Mexico have won all four of their matches […]
Everton’s summer business under David Moyes and the Friedkin Group is well underway. Here’s every confirmed signing, advanced deal, live target and departure in one place. ✅ Confirmed Hayden Hackney — Middlesbrough, midfielderSigned for an initial £16.5m rising to around £25m with add-ons. The Championship Player of the Season arrives as a progressive, deep-lying midfielder […]
Everton have submitted a formal £17m offer, plus add-ons, for Atalanta right-back Raoul Bellanova, as David Moyes looks to finally resolve his long-running right-back problem. According to Italian journalist Luca Cerchione, via Football-Talk, Everton have moved to get ahead of Real Sociedad in the race for the 26-year-old, with Atalanta already lining up Nottingham Forest’s […]
Hayden Hackney has arrived at Everton, Idrissa Gueye is almost certainly leaving, and two more names have been added to the mix. Here is where the midfield stands, position by position. The base: Hackney is not a Gueye replacement Hackney’s game is built on progression, not destruction. He won the Championship Player of the Season […]
There’s a version of this summer where Everton sign Jarrod Bowen and it’s deemed (maybe Grealish aside) the single best piece of business the Friedkin Group have done. In a parallel universe, there’s another version where we look back on it as the moment we sold our most gifted forward to a direct Premier League […]
Jarrod Bowen has made his position known to David Moyes over a potential move to Everton, and would seriously consider joining should the Toffees follow through with an approach, according to TEAMtalk. The outlet, whose report carried additional input from Graeme Bailey, said Bowen has made his willingness clear to Moyes directly, provided Everton lodge […]
